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[kangnamdragon]

[Grotto]

I wouldnt say that I am the owners guest. I would say that you are an employee. As the apartment is part of your wage....

I have no problem with them coming to my apartment when they have given proper notice and I am home. But when they invade my privacy and enter my home without permission that is not right.

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My landlady served me with a notice that she was coming into my apartment today to fix the dishwasher. When I got home from work, I found a different person here who I had never met before. Since I live by myself, I was a little taken aback and concerned. Shouldn��t my landlady have told me that it was going to be someone else who came in to do the repairs?

Your landlady can ask others to enter the property on her behalf to carry out repairs. She can pass on this right to enter to others. You might want to talk to your landlady about the repair person if you had concerns and request that she give you the name of the person who will be coming on future occasions.



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When we moved in to our apartment, the inspection report showed quite a few deficiencies. The landlord said that he would take care of them, but it has become a bit of a problem. The landlord is calling us every other day to say that he is going to be working in the apartment. Because he has a day job, he comes in the evening, which is very disruptive to my family. There are still jobs to be done. Do I have to put up with him coming so often?


Not necessarily. A landlord is required to allow tenants peaceful enjoyment of their property and to provide premises that are habitable. It is possible that by continually arriving at short intervals to carry out repairs, your landlord is breaking one or both of those commitments. You could apply to court on the basis that the landlord is not allowing you peaceful enjoyment of your property. Alternatively, it could be that the premises are not habitable and you could request relief such as a reduction in rent for the period of inconvenience. Before you take this step, you might wish to consider talking to your landlord to see if there is another way to resolve the matter.



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When is my landlord allowed to come into my property?


In some situations your landlord is allowed to enter your property with notice to you, even if you do not agree that he can enter. Notice must be given at least 24 hours before the time the landlord is going to enter the premises and the time of entry must be between 8 am and 8 pm on a day that is not a holiday. The situations are:

to inspect the property to consider repairs;
to carry out repairs;
to show the property, or to allow a realtor to show the property to people who might buy it or need to carry out a mortgage inspection;
to show the property to people who might want to rent it. Prospective renters can only be shown the property in the last month of a fixed term tenancy or after a periodic tenancy has been terminated; and
to carry out pest control measures in order that the premises meet public health standards.
A landlord can enter the rented property without any notice or agreement when an emergency requires him or her to enter, or where a tenant has abandoned the property.

Now Kangnam a tenant is also classified as someone who lives in the rental property. So yes the person who rents or leases an apartment is a tenant but so is the person living there.

I would argue that the apartment is part of our pay and therefore we are the sub leasee. The hogwan owner leases the apartment and sublets it to us. Therefore he would be our landlord.

[kangnamdragon]

[Derrek]

I've got an idea... why don't you guys, who have apartments provided, all trash your apartments and let us know what happens?

[Grotto]

Kangnamdragon wrote

[kangnamdragon]

There is also negligence. I have seen teachers who left their key under the mat. They were robbed and blamed the school for it because the school made them live there. Yes, it was a safe neighborhood and a good apartment. They then changed the locks and wanted the school to pay for the new locks.

[peppermint]

[JongnoGuru]

[Bozo Yoroshiku]

[Hollywoodaction]

[JongnoGuru]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Badmojo]

At the end of the day, they're responsible for the place.

With notice, and when you're at home, there's nothing wrong with them checking the apartment.

I just take offense when they tell me to clean it.

Where do they get the balls big enough to ask me something like that?

[JongnoGuru]